On 3/22/11 8:23 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:18:31PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Building the kernel shouldn't be an issue - but look at the SL notes on the srpms that don't build with the listed dependencies as shipped
- and they aren't being picky about the library linkages matching the
RH binaries like CentOS is. If the RH build links things from source they don't ship, how much can you trust the projects that depend on that source to be able to ship timely updates?
If you don't trust the project _why_ are you here?
The CentOS team has a good history and tested binary compatibility has its advantages - but they do rely on the upstream which previously was not openly hostile to rebuilds. It's not necessarily even possible to get binary compatibility if matching source isn't made available.